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Senate to begin BCS hearings

YES!!!

Hallelujah ... let's hope this all leads to the end of the BCS farce and a real NCAA National Championship playoff system!

Please make it a 16 team playoff with all conference champions automatically in and the remaining 5 seeds chosen via a committee similar to the basketball playoffs.

Change "BCS" to "two-party" and you have the arrogance problem that many voters in America and Utah face when it comes to representative and competitive elections.

Will Sen. Hatch use this hearing to also call on Democrats and Republicans to create a level-playing field for Greens, Libertarians, and other voters independent of the bipartisan cartel?

This is an interesting test to see if our government will follow ethics instead of going back to the good O'l boy system.

It doesn't take a lawyer to figure our the unfairness of the BCS.

Go Hatch! Go Shurtleff! Go Young!

I hope that they make some sort of crossroads with this, but I doubt it. It's been going on a long time and the disparity between the haves and have nots is only getting bigger.

I guess it remains to be seen if Mr Young is brave to testify or stupid. If it helps all the non-bcs schools, then he was brave, if it hurts, stupid.
I think the BCS will not change anything they do. They are arrogant and now we see where the SEC gets the arrogance. They get more money than anybody in the BCS so they can afford to do what ever they want!

A little cheese with your whine?

I would say the same thing about the Senate and government in general. Too Arrogant to Change.

Hatch is just political grandstanding. Of course the BCS won't do anything. They know congress is to inept to enforce anything.

Mid majors can only be included if they are in the top 3, undefeated and the SEC doesn't have 2 qualifying teams

Why doesn't our blow hard senator introduce legislation that bans any NCAA school from receiving public money until they change to a playoff system. Football is the only sport that doesn't have a playoff. The NCAA is the problem here they will ban schools from using Indian mascots and other stupid stuff but making a system fair no way. They are way to arrogant for that. Look at the basic ed requirements for a degree they push schools to have for accreditation most are a joke and just add years which is money to the cost of a degree. Maybe the NCAA should just go green since that seems to be the cool thing of today and not have any sport games just let schools practice with the B team call it a STAYOMPETITION and then let the press vote for all championship teams.

There is nothing illegal about the BCS.

If the NCAA wants a football champion, they can institute their own playoff.

Of course, the BCS runs the NCAA, too.

We should be very excited about the way our teams play and the way they are coached.

Looking forward to the season!

"Hatch also complained, "80 percent of BCS revenue goes to the privileged conferences, and around 12 percent to non-privileged conferences."

While I don't believe the government should intervene; it is a foregone conclusion that BCS schools' academics and overall standing benefit way beyond athletics because of this revenue stream.

It is this simple: Boycott all ads during football games between BCS teams. Watch the games, enjoy the fun, punish the advertisers.

Waste you right George Bush dis say our constitution was just a piece of paper. The greed that ruined our economy to benefit those already wealthy, has ruined sports. Be glad you don't live in Greece where the Summer Games bankrupted the nation.

Sen Hatch is too kind towards the BCS and it's leaders. Arrogant is one word to describe their self interests, but the more accurate and truthful word to clarify their position is CORRUPT.

Go get em.

Hopefully this will be one of Hatch's last battles for a state he claims to "represent." It's hard to root for him, but on this issue I wholeheartedly do. I make myself sick.

Why is it the job of the government to fix the economy exactly? Last I checked, that wasn't a constitutional item.

In fact, a government getting in the way of the economy is AGAINST the constitution.

The government getting it's dirty hands involved only makes it worse. An economy based on goods and services can only fail if it is not guided by the principles of a free market unconstrained by the government.

Our founders felt that way, and they were right. The only way for our government to fix our economy is to get out of our way, and stop spending money on things that they have no business spending on.

Ciao

Utah had a great year - don't spoil it by whining endlessly about it. No one thinks the BCS is a perfect system, far from it. But the schools are also not going to put these players through another 3 or 4 games a year just for bragging rights. These are schools.... remember?

Yeah, I guess wanting a fair way to settle the national championship and to distribute millions of dollars of revenue is simply whining!

so why don't all the other Division I school refuse to sign the agreements and then all the BCS has is a glorified multi-conference championship that doesn't include the rest of the nation?